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Don't Starve vs Terraria

Reviews on Steam

Terraria

12.6× more reviews

Critical reception

Terraria

0.8pp gap

Estimated sales (median)

Terraria

11.3× more units (white-box estimate)

More recent

Don't Starve

2 years apart

A

Don't Starve

2013 · Adventure

Klei Entertainment · Klei Entertainment

Reviews
96,212
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
9.1M
Net rev
$52.2M
B

Terraria

2011 · Action

Re-Logic · Re-Logic

Reviews
1,216,769
Positive
97%
Launch price
$9.99
Engine
n/a
Sales (median)
103.4M
Net rev
$590.2M

Tag overlap

60% shared , 12 shared tags, 8 only on Don't Starve, 8 only on Terraria.

Only Don't Starve

Perma DeathRogue-likeModdableDifficultSimulationTop-DownSurvival HorrorHorror

Shared

SurvivalOpen World Survival CraftCraftingAdventureIndieSandboxSingleplayerMultiplayerOpen WorldExplorationReplay Value2D

Only Terraria

Pixel GraphicsBuildingCo-opOnline Co-OpActionRPGPlatformerAtmospheric

Sales estimates

Both estimates use the same vv1.0 multi-factor Boxleiter method. Click "How is this calculated?" on either to see the per-factor breakdown.

Sales estimate

vv1.0

5.5M to 12.8M

units (median: 9.1M)

$31.3M to $73.0M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

5.5Mmedian12.8M

Sales estimate

vv1.0

62.1M to 144.8M

units (median: 103.4M)

$354.1M to $826.2M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)

62.1Mmedian144.8M

How comparison pages work

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